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Tag Name "Languages" (419)

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The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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If you want to appeal to people of different languages and cultures, you have to move toward tropes that are universally recognized. Games, references, subtleties that only work in your language are hardly useful.
Tim Parks
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If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.
Sandra Cisneros
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I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.
Viggo Mortensen
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Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.
Patricia Ryan
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Love can be expressed and received in all five languages. However, if you don't speak a person's primary love language, that person will not feel loved, even though you may be speaking the other four. Once you are speaking his or her primary love language fluently, then you can sprinkle in the other four and they will be like icing on the cake.
Gary Chapman
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I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar.
Andy Lau
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Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.
Godfrey Higgins
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A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
Matthew Lesko
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The enemy of the spirit is the selfish ego, which thinks that happiness can be gained through causing unhappiness and disharmony to others. In many ancient languages, the word for enemy means one who falls out of rhythm one who is not working in harmony with the larger group.
Sharon Gannon
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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense especially words from the ancient languages.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I've always had an ear for languages and music so it's something I'm continually working on but it's fun.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
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In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.
Stephen Leacock
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And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.
Darl McBride
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We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is sex - Male, female, dark, light, up down, in out - its the language of duality.
Frederick Lenz
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People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages.
Peter Farb
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Eyes...They speak all languages.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.
Jon Secada
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Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.
Giannina Braschi
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It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which I is capitalized in many other languages You is capitalized and the i is lower case. --
Sydney J. Harris
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What's unique for me, as an actor, is this idea that I don't have to be grounded to the natural law of things. I can pull things out of the air and communicate with other spirits and other elements in other languages or forms, but I'm still right here, on the earth. That's a lot of fun.
Jonathan Tucker
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I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.
David Altmejd
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
Dorothy Parker
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As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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